Alfred Gough

Writing

Alfred Gough

Born 1967-08-22 · Leonardtown, Maryland, USA

Alfred Gough (/ˈɡɒf/ GOF; born August 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer, writer, director, showrunner and creator. He is the developer of The WB/The CW's Superman-prequel television series Smallville. Alongside longtime writing/producing partner Miles Millar, Gough co-created other television programs like AMC's 2015 wuxia-influenced dystopian television series Into the Badlands, MTV's 2016 epic fantasy television series The Shannara Chronicles (based on The Sword of Shannara Trilogy book trilogy by Terry Brooks) and Netflix's Wednesday, the Tim Burton-helmed Addams Family spin-off. Among his feature film credits he wrote or produced are Shanghai Noon and its sequel Shanghai Knights, Spider-Man 2, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Hannah Montana: The Movie and Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfred Gough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice poster
6.9

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

2024

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor poster
5.5

Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

2008

Shanghai Noon poster
6.4

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

Shanghai Noon

2000

Hannah Montana: The Movie poster
6.6

When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet niblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood for some ol' blue jeans on the family farm in Tennessee, and question if she can be both Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana.

Hannah Montana: The Movie

2009

Herbie Fully Loaded poster
5.8

Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.

Herbie Fully Loaded

2005

I Am Number Four poster
6.2

A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

I Am Number Four

2011

Shanghai Knights poster
6.1

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Shanghai Knights

2003

Showtime poster
5.6

A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.

Showtime

2002

Bullet to the Head poster
5.6

After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Bullet to the Head

2012

Double Tap poster
5.1

A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

Double Tap

1997

Smallville poster
7.0

Inside the idyllic community of Smallville, the intertwined destinies of Clark Kent, Lana Lang, and Lex Luthor begin to take shape while an imminent danger emerges: a high-school prank has spawned a vengeful villain who has acquired super powers of his own. (This standalone version of the series pilot combines footage with the second episode, newly formatted in 1.78 widescreen, and has an alternate closing produced for the Canadian DVD market.)

Smallville

2002

Made Men poster
5.3

A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters and the drug dealers start a shoot-out for unknown reasons and both go gunning for Belushi. Meanwhile an unscrupulous cop is secretly having an affair with the girl friend and planning to make off with the money.

Made Men

1999

Ice Cream Man poster
NR

An anthology wherein each story has its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. He’s their friend, foe, God and demon, and he has the power to change a person’s life forever.

Ice Cream Man

Ice Cream Man poster
NR

An anthology wherein each story has its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. He’s their friend, foe, God and demon, and he has the power to change a person’s life forever.

Ice Cream Man

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NR

A reboot of the animated film franchise. Plot TBA.

Untitled Animated Addams Family Reboot